Somersetshire

English

Etymology

Somerset +‎ -shire

Proper noun

Somersetshire

1. (archaic) The English county of Somerset.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

     In that part of the western division of this kingdom which is commonly called Somersetshire, there lately lived, and perhaps lives still, a gentleman whose name was Allworthy […]

   • 1962 April, “Death from Natural Causes?”, in Modern Railways, page 218:

     What have Hampshire and the contiguous areas got that Gloucestershire, Somersetshire and Wiltshire have not?